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Our intrepid editor, Adam Vaughan, has signed up for a eco home audit with London Mayor Ken Livingstone's Green Homes Concierge Service. For £200, the service bags you an energy performance certificate giving your home a green score, and the auditors follow up with recommendations and quotes for work once you start any eco upgrades to your home.
Adam's eco auditor, Lex, comes armed with gadgets to measure drafts and heat, and impresses with his thermal gun and depressurising door. He goes through the house counting energy-saving lightbulbs and sniffing around the radiators, and pronounces Adam's yearly home CO2 emissions at 4.8 tonnes. His overall score comes to 67 out of 100 -- not bad considering the UK average is 46.
Watch this space for more on the Green Homes Concierge Service -- Adam will be receiving follow-up advice, and may actually get off his butt to put some into practise.
30 January 2008 01:58pm
Are there any good tax rebates for having wall insulation fitted? Seems like a good way to get some money back towards improving your home.
30 January 2008 03:27pm
Short answer, yes. You can apply for a grant. Enter your details on the Energy Saving Trust website and see what it tells you:
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/proxy/view/full/2019/grantsandofferssearch
Your Local Authority may well offer a grant. If you're on benefits it'll almost certainly offer a grant.
If you live in London, you should be able to get a grant under the Mayor of London's insulation offer for cavity walls, which most modern homes have (http://www.london.gov.uk/insulate).
As I understand it, the Mayor's scheme doesn't cover the sort of plasterboard wall insulation I'd need to get, as my home has solid brick walls rather than cavity walls
05 February 2008 12:19pm
Shame the mayor won't offer a rebate if you need plasterboard insulation. Surely a high percentage of city homes will have brick walls with no cavity?
Still, good to know there is money available to help.
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